Booga has been sick, and I don't mean, kind of sick, I mean really sick.
He had Pneumonia and we weren't sure where this came from because it's the summer and it's odd to get Pneumonia this time of year.
Anyway, he started work this summer at a place that trains people with special needs to work out in the public and I kind of wonder if wasn't something someone had at work?
However, it doesn't matter, he was dog sick.
He was so sick that when the third of July came around, Booga was made to watch the fireworks from our front porch, which is no mean feat because it requires that you stand at a certain part of the deck and crane your neck. We also watched the fireworks on television, but it hardly matched watching them in person.
We were planning on taking him to the fireworks on the fourth, however, he wasn't getting better, and so we took him to the hospital.
We spent the day with him watching him get pumped full of antibiotics and liquids because he was dehydrated. Again we watched televised fireworks and Booga struggled to breathe.
The next day he felt better and was on an inhaler that he used quite a bit but it would take at least two weeks for him to fully recover.
In that time, the cold that initially gave him Pneumonia, gave me the flu. And I was dog sick.
It was so hot that I didn't know half the time if I was sweating because I was hot or if I was sweating because I had a temperature.
We just purchased one of those handy dandy thermometers that you stick in your ear and tells you your temperature in one second. It was difficult for me to figure out at first because I'm stupid. But eventually I figured out how it worked. We had to get a new one because I went to use the digital thermometer that my husband and I had bought when our other children were small, on Booga when he was sick, and it had died. So for a couple days while Booga was sick I used the old fashioned method of hand-to-forehead and the tell tale sign of just walking up to Boog and having the heat just radiate from him.
I put it in my ear and the thing went off and I took it out and it said 99*.
"Great!"
My husband and I can't be sick. In our family the world stops if one of us is sick. So you can walk around our house and in various places are antibiotic soap and GermX hand sanitizer that gets used for everything from washing hands quickly to disinfecting the keyboard and phone to antiseptic on minor scratches.
So Boog and I were sick together. At one point when I was driving one day, I would cough-then he would cough….I would cough-then he would cough….And it went on like that. Then one time he coughed and I coughed and so forth and so on….
At one point I didn't cough at the allotted time and Boog looked over at me and said, "It's your turn."
During our convalescence I taped "Time Bandits" which is a Terry Gilliam film and since Booga loves Monty Python, and "Time Bandits" is "Pythonesque" he loved it. At one point in the week Booga looked at me and said, "Mom it baffles me."
No word on what baffles him, something baffled him, however, I was not privy to what it was exactly.
Could be the fact that we were both sick in the middle of summer?
Hard to tell.
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My daughter sent me this in an email.
I Believe –Author???
I Believe...
That just because two people argue,
It doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
It doesn't mean they do love each other.
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We understand that friends change.
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they're going to hurt you every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.
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even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
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That will give you heartache for life.
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To become the person I want to be.
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Loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
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when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
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I have the right to be angry,
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And what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays
you've celebrated.
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to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
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the world doesn't stop for your grief.
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may have influenced who we are,
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Out a secret.. It could change your life Forever.
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Two people can look at the exact same
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When a friend cries out to you -
you will find the strength to help.
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That credentials on the wall
do not make you a decent human being.
I Believe...
'The happiest of people don't necessarily
have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything they have.
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